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 03/14/2005 06:33:26 PM · #26
I'm still dialup at home, and have a 100mbit connection to an OC48 at work....so needless to say, i do almost all my voting at work. I often do my entering from home tho...painful.

They claim I'll have dsl by june, but I signed up in october...
 03/14/2005 06:34:05 PM · #27
Originally posted by kirbic:
I know it amazes a lot of folks that there are areas in the US with no good options for broadband. I had only one very poor option until 2 years ago, and I live within 25 miles of a major metro area.
The problem in the US is that the area that needs to be covered is huge, and the population, though somewhat concentrated in major cities, is still very widely spread. The infrastructure costs are huge for building and maintaining hard-wired systems, and so many folks are too far from a switch for DSL to work on the existing phone wires. The transition is in full swing, however, and almost all kids born today will prolly never know what dialup was.


Yes, this is very true. The "Euros", especially, are used to thinking in terms of much smaller distances and much more concentrated groupings of people. For much of the American landmass, satellite is the only option for broadband.

Robt.
 03/14/2005 06:37:35 PM · #28
is satelite any good
 03/14/2005 06:47:03 PM · #29
Originally posted by TLL061:
is satelite any good


Sattelite is very expensive.

-Terry
 03/14/2005 06:47:59 PM · #30
is there weather problems
 03/14/2005 06:49:05 PM · #31
I dont know about anyone else , But i'm paying $ 45. a month for cable
 03/14/2005 07:36:17 PM · #32
Satellite is ok if you are a light internet user. Most have a fair Use Policy that puts a limit on the amount of upload and download you can do before they throttle back your connection (or stop it all together for an hour or more). For people who routinely up/download large files like photos, movies, music, games, etc, this is no good. Where I am in New York, we are limited to a 28.8kbps dial-up connection because we are on a pair gain system and a remote terminal (a little box out in the middle of a cow pasture). Our only broadband option would be satellite, but the start-up is $500 for the dish and installation and the $50 a month for the service. Since our connection is mostly used for my photos and my husband's MMORPGs (Everquest, Star Wars Galaxies and World of Warcraft) which each consist of large amounts of data transfer that would put us over the hourly limit constantly, this is not an option for us. We keep trying to convince our telephone company, Verizon, to upgrade our remote terminal to allow DSL, but until they do, we won't be switching anytime soon.

Jen
03/14/2005 07:42:55 PM · #33
I have cable here... 5meg download, 512k upload speeds. I work for the cable company here so my internet and all cable is gratis. I love my job!!!!

BYork
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 03/14/2005 08:15:20 PM · #34
Originally posted by bear_music:
Statistically, 814 out of 30,000 is considered a very significant base on which to draw conclusions. Political pollsters get accurate predictions from far smaller samplings, percentage-wise. When you consider the 814 as compared to the actual number of active users of the site, it's an extremely significant percentage of responses.

Robt.


This is only true if the sample is random and, therefore, representative of the entire population. Because respondents to the DPC polls are self-selected, the sample is not random. Accordingly, it would be inaccurate to conclude that the poll results we're discussing here are representative of the DPC population.
 03/14/2005 08:30:51 PM · #35
Originally posted by bdobe:
Originally posted by bear_music:
Statistically, 814 out of 30,000 is considered a very significant base on which to draw conclusions. Political pollsters get accurate predictions from far smaller samplings, percentage-wise. When you consider the 814 as compared to the actual number of active users of the site, it's an extremely significant percentage of responses.

Robt.


This is only true if the sample is random and, therefore, representative of the entire population. Because respondents to the DPC polls are self-selected, the sample is not random. Accordingly, it would be inaccurate to conclude that the poll results we're discussing here are representative of the DPC population.


But it would []not[/i] be inaccurate to conclude that the results are representative of the active DPC population...
 03/14/2005 08:34:30 PM · #36
Originally posted by kirbic:
But it would not be inaccurate to conclude that the results are representative of the active DPC population...


That is heavily dependent on what the active DPC population is. So, share with us, what is the active DPC population? I'm curious.
 03/14/2005 08:38:30 PM · #37
I am just posting to make all the dial-up people jealous. I am getting 4MB per sec. The drawback $55 a month for service only because I don't have cable TV. I love my dish too much for that.
 03/14/2005 08:43:42 PM · #38
Originally posted by rex07734:
I am just posting to make all the dial-up people jealous. I am getting 4MB per sec. The drawback $55 a month for service only because I don't have cable TV. I love my dish too much for that.


I had the dish - loved it - had basic cable. When the cable modem went it, they let in all hte other channels too...bye bye dish. $47 a month for the internet, $16 for 'basic cable'.

I want a PVR!
 03/14/2005 08:55:18 PM · #39
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:


I want a PVR!


Exactly why I have dish I already have two PVR's
 03/14/2005 08:58:34 PM · #40
Originally posted by bdobe:
Originally posted by kirbic:
But it would not be inaccurate to conclude that the results are representative of the active DPC population...


That is heavily dependent on what the active DPC population is. So, share with us, what is the active DPC population? I'm curious.


Knowing that would presume a solid defintion of "active". At a minimum, "active" would mean "logs in at least once weekly on average, participates in forum discussions, occasionally submits to challenges or posts images for critique."
I don't have access to those numbers, there was an old thread where EddyG discussed some stats that he had extracted from the challenge histories, but I can't find it at the moment.
The "800+" number is a sizeable fraction to be sure, possibly as much as half.
 03/21/2005 06:53:58 PM · #41
I get, like, 1.5 mbps download speed on my independent DSL line at college. The problem is that the company (Pocket iNet) charges me 5 bucks per every Gigabyte over 15 I download a month. I've suffered from that several times.
 03/21/2005 07:08:44 PM · #42
Got a letter from my internet company and they have upgrade. Now getting 6MB on download
 03/21/2005 08:24:50 PM · #43
I am current logged in at (drum roll please)...

40.0 KBPS... Yawn.
 03/21/2005 11:16:00 PM · #44
And they sell "fast internet access" here in Brazil thinking it actually IS fast. I used to pay something like U$ 37 for a 300kbps down / 128kbps up aDSL line. They actually sell it as "BROAD BAND". To me it's more like "wannabe broad". I now share a 600kbps connection with 3 other friends of mine. It ain't bad, but c'mon, I used to have over 1mb with roadrunner! It's like having a highly modded Toyota Supra and only been able to go up to 40mph!

Message edited by author 2005-03-21 23:17:14.
 03/22/2005 12:05:17 AM · #45
Originally posted by aguapreta:
I am current logged in at (drum roll please)...

40.0 KBPS... Yawn.


I'm currently sitting at 31,200. :(
 03/22/2005 01:11:00 AM · #46
3.5 megabits per second...

Robt.
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